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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An introduction to Christology. After a strong grounding in the various biblical depictions of Jesus Christ, the course examines portraits of Jesus through the ages by close reading of theological, narrative, and visual images of Christ. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 For 2000 years Judaism has been a minority religion in majority "other" cultures. With theestablishment of Israel, Judaism became the majority culture of a nation-state. This course examine how the religion of Judaism both influences and is influenced by the secular culture of the modern State of Israel. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 A study of Catholicism from historical and theological perspectives to aid students in attaining an appreciation for the richness of the Catholic Tradition in the past and present. Scripture, sacramental life, doctrinal teachings and development, moral issues, and the future Church direction are explored.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 As brother religions vying for the same sacred history, Islam and Judaism trace the genesis of their spiritual and biological communities back to the very same founding parents. Yet Islam is not Judaism, Muslims are not Jews, and vice versa. Rather, the two traditions are, and understand themselves to be, distinct entities with distinct value systems. By comparing the Jewish and Muslim accounts of the shared Biblical ancestors, as well the often colorful exegesis on these narratives, this course will investigate various matters of moral and ethical concern to these communities and the lessons thereby imparted by each tradition. Prerequisite: GR 100 or GR 140.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Examines the dynamics of sex and violence in ancient Israel as they are presented in the biblical text. Topics include the construction of gender, the status of women and men in society and law, holy war, the characterization of physical violence as positive or negative, the gender of God and its implications.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 The development of the Church's understanding of the Virgin Mary and of other feminine aspects of the transcendent in Christian spirituality. The course begins with Mary's ideological antecedents and the issue of the "historical Mary." It explores the relationshipbetween images of the Virgin and theologies, controversies, and heresies, as well as contemporary feminist understandings of Mary and of the divine as feminine.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2009, 2011 An examination of the book of Job and its poetic treatment of the human condition. The course also considers other ancient Near Eastern texts that deal with the issue of evil in the world from a religious perspective, and later readings and retellings of Job by Blake, Frost, Jung, MacLeish, Fackenheim, and others.
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Three Credits Fall Semester An exploration of traditional Buddhist ethics, moral arguments Buddhists have advanced about contemporary issues, and points of comparison with philosophical and Christian ethics.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 An examination of religion from the perspectives of the major psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to human behavior.
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Three Credits Spring 2009 The failure to integrate sexuality into Christian life has created a crisis. The failure to understand human intimacy has eroded religious belief. Theories of ethics and human behavior, however, illuminate why intimacy is at the heart of Christian belief and ethics.
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